I saw in Popular Science today that someone (Logitech or Kensington?) has a wireless keyboard with a battery life of three years. Pretty good. And then I thought, why not just use the energy of the person pressing the keys — I’d think there’s enough force applied that it could keep a battery charged for the short bursts of transmissions. Too, why not set a mouse on rollers and use the energy of moving the mouse around? Looks like someone already thought of the mouse.
Sep 242008
Generation Nod
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Sep 232008
I’m 35 and part of “Generation X” — the group of something-somethings who weren’t supposed to have any ambition other than paying for the Social Security and debt of the Selfish Generation.
The current generation, I dub “Generation Nod.” They are forever looking down. At the phones. Texting. Playing portable games. They never look up. An enterprising sociopath could rob an entire generation by just clubbing them — they’d never see it coming.
Sep 172008
Choco 2.0 is out. Open-source constraint satisfaction, written in Java, and business-friendly BSD-licensed.
It’s the Holy Grail of computing.
Top Secret, Apparently
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Sep 162008
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapCacheSize = 48000
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.BitmapVirtualCacheSize = 48
Sep 152008
Might as well use the cache — that’s what it’s there for. Like Vista’s Superfetch, or XP’s prefetch, or precompiling JSPs, or what have you.
For example, to load up your squid http proxy cache, just run:
wget -r -nd -H –delete-after http://your.portal.company.local/
or
wget -r -nd -H –delete-after -i some_file_with_URLs.html
wget’s –no-cache will force the proxy to download fresh copies, too. Try loading popular pages.